Snell v. Weldon’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably Wisner v. Chandler (1915), 6 Ill. 2d 64 - Sterling v. Dubin (1955)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on People v. . Jung Hing · Shipman v. Furniss · American Bible Society v. Price · Schneider v. Manning · Middleditch v. Williams
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a testator has some actual grounds for the belief which he has, though regarded by-others as wholly insufficient, the mere misapprehension of the facts or unreasonable and extravagant conclusions drawn therefrom do not establish the existence of such a delusion as will invalidate his will. Stackhouse v. Horton, 15 N. J. Eq. 202; Martin v. Thayer, 37 W. Va. 38 , 16 S. E. 480 ; Wait v. Westfall, 161 Ind. 648 , 68 N. E. 271 ; Owen v. Crumbaugh, 228 Ill. 380 , 81 N. E. 1044 , 119 Am. St. Rep. 442 [10 Ann. Cas. 606], “The establishment of an insane delusion involves proof that the testator in this case believed certain things concerning his son which did not exist; that he had no evidence on which to base such belief; that the things which he believed were false and were adhered to by the testator after their falsity had been shown by reasonable evidence; that the things which the testator believed were such things as no person of sound mind would believe; that the testator refused to yield or give up such irrational belief in the face of such reasonable evidence as would convince an ordinarily sound and healthy mind; and, lastly, that the existence of such delusion was present in the mind of the testator and exercised a controlling influence over him at the time the will was executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Batson v. Batson““At all times and under all circumstances, in public and private places and in the presence of all classes of people, whenever the testator had occasion to refer to appellee, he heaped upon him the vilest epithets known to the English language.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Batson v. Batson““He would walk the streets with his shoes unlaced, sometimes without a coat, and with the balance of his clothing improperly adjusted;””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Batson v. Batson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.